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commits suicide A senior history major died Friday, May 12 of a self-in flicted gun shot. Joshua O’Brien, 22, was from Spring field and had played football at UNLV before transferring to the University. His brother said O’Brien was pursuing writing and had just submit ted a novel to publishers. PAGE3A Writer reads at award ceremony National Book Award-win ner Barry Lopez, a local fic tion writer, will read passages from his newest book at the Nancy and Walter Kidd read ing tonight at Gerlinger Lounge. Lopez judged the fic tion writing work. PAGE GA Campus celebrates University Day The 11th annual campus clean-up and beautification by University students, facul ty and staff includes paint ing, litter pick-up, bark spreading and flower plant ing on campus. One hour of work earns participants a free T-shirt and refresh ments. The event lasts from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sign in near the Pioneer Father stat ue on East 13th between Con don and Chapman halls. Bi ll Take Back the Night with a march tonight The 22nd- Annual Take Back the Night March begins with a rally and speakers at 8 p.m. this evening in the EMU Amphitheater. A march will follow through the streets of Eugene and end at Eighth Av enue and Oak Street. A Speak Out by victims of sexual as sault will take place, and re turn transportation from the Speak Out to the University will be provided. I Weather Today Friday PARTLY CtOQDY MOSTLY CLOUDY high70,taw52 high 77, low 47 Q n Thursday May 18,2000 Volume 101, Issue 155 .1 h e_w e b www.dailyemeraid.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Make more noise, pay more fines An ordinance proposes that residents pay police costs for returning to the same house I By Darren Freeman Oregon Daily Emerald It’s almost assumed that weekend plans for many Uni versity students entail alcohol and loud music. When parties become too loud, however, and neighbors complain to the police, the Eu gene Police Department has to respond, often with several offi cers at taxpayers’ expense. Attempting to deter unruly parties, the EPD has drafted a city ordinance that would hold tenants financially responsible Turn to Citations, page 8A Shhhh... The ordinance would require tenants to repay the city the cost of police response to disorderly parties if: at the address at the J*-m By Serena Markstrom Oregon Daily Emerald Usually, books and bricks are not associated items. When a book’s binding needs repair, however, nothing beats using a colorfully wrapped brick to hold the pages together as the glue dries. When old, fragile books die, they are of ten difficult to replace, but there’s a de partment on campus dedicated to pre venting the untimely death of books, saving the University money and ensur ing historical books are preserved for fu ture generations to view. This month you don’t have to take a tour of the Knight Library’s Beach Lab to dis cover the tools and techniques library em ployees use to keep books in circulation. On display now in the display cases near the reference center, in honor of Na tional Preservation Month, are the differ ent tasks the preservation department is responsible for. The display also details various things users do that damage books. Ten years ago there was no such thing as a preservation department at the Uni versity library. Today the Knight Library preservation department is the leading re source for libraries all over the state to learn how to keep their collections alive. Normandy Helmer, head of the preser vation and binding department, said the University Library has many unique col lections. With these collections — such as all Oregon newspaper microfilm since 1953, and the rare books and manuscripts Turn to Book binding, page 8A Tattered books, such as these in the Knight Library, receive royal treatment from preservationists. It is often cheaper to repair books than to seek replacements. / EWEB; city officials’ salary appear to win Two progressive candidates are elected to the city council, and two very close ballot measures seem headed for victory By Josh Ryneal Oregon Daily Emerald The election of Bonnie Bettman and Betty Taylor to City Council might not make Mayor Jim Torrey happy, but both newly-elected councilors pledged to change the council’s attitude toward transportation and environmental issues. The neck-and-neck city councilor races in Wards 2 and 3 were finally resolved Wednesday, with Bettman pulling away from Tracy Olsen and receiving 56.3 percent of the vote and Betty Taylor de feating her closest challenger with 60.3 of the vote. Torrey, interviewed recently in The Register-Guard, had stat ed that he believed the election of Bettman and Taylor would result in a divisive city council, because the two progressives didn’t represent the voters in their wards, but only spoke for a “vocal minority.” Bettman said that her success depended on the support from voters in her area. “People in Ward 3 like what I’m doing,” she said. Bettman also credited her win to her grassroots campaign, and said that “I wrote all of my own literature and had a lot of support from volunteers, in cluding many students and mothers.” Taylor said that she was look ing forward to working with Bettman to make the city coun cil more progressive. “There won’t be a solid vot ing bloc now, but I am very hap py that Bonnie is on the coun cil,” she said. Taylor said that she hopes to Turn to Election, page 5A U-[I] had a lot of support from volun teers, includ ing many students...” Bonnie Bettman city councilor
